This guide is designed to help governments and partners in planning for resilient post disaster recovery while contributing to longer term sustainable development. The guide is based on global good practices gleaned from ...

Regional droughts are common in North America, but pan-continental droughts extending across multiple regions, including the 2012 event, are rare relative to single-region events. Here, the tree-ring-derived North American ...

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This guide is to help healthcare workers and employers prepare for and respond to an influenza pandemic. It is organized into four major sections: 1) clinical background information on influenza; 2) infection control; 3) ...

The article discusses about the public health emergency regarding the high morbidity and mortality rates of Americans due to pandemic influenza.The U.S. was underprepared for the prolonged occurrence of pandemic influenza ...

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This paper evaluates behavior among individuals during the sinking of the M/V Estonia in 1994, which caused the deaths of 851 people. Survival rates of those on board indicate a drastically higher proportion of men surviving ...

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This paper uses two discourses-Kuhn’s (1962) formulation of the paradigm and cognitive theory (specifically that of social schemas)- to deconstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and National Transportation ...

Alexander, David(University College London Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, 2013)

In this set of essays, the author, an experienced disaster researcher, uses a personal and non-specialist approach to address what he personally feels is important in the field. The essays titled, 1) There is Nothing More ...